CueConductor — Hybrid Orchestra Conductor Tool | Nathan Hofheins
Vision Music Publishing

For the podium, the recording studio,
and the practice studio.

Stems. Click track. Visual cues. Video. The score itself. All locked to a unified transport — on the device in your hand, and on every stand.

Conductor
Composer/Engineer
Musician
Inside the App

Every screen, purpose-built.

I  ·  At the podium
CueConductor performance view over scoring video — bar and beat counter, 3/4 time signature, and colored streamers approaching a punch
01  /  Performance view

The whole picture, at a glance

Bar and beat counter, cue title, time signature, and color-coded streamers over the scoring video — with the click and FOH faders under your thumbs on either side. Everything a conductor needs, and nothing that competes for attention during a take.

CueConductor stem mixer with individual faders, solo, and mute controls for every stem
02  /  Stem mixer

Full mix control in your hand

Faders, solo, and mute for every stem in the package — FOH, rehearsal orchestra, click, and every pre-produced layer. Click and FOH each carry their own pan, folding to mono off-center so a hard side sends the complete mix into one ear. Adjust mid-session without bothering the control room.

II  ·  Find any bar
CueConductor locate to measure — numeric keypad with Jump & Pause and Jump & Play
03  /  Locate to measure

Type a number, go there

When the director calls a bar, type it and jump — with or without playback. No scrubbing, no hunting through a waveform.

CueConductor locate to marker — rehearsal letters listed with their measure numbers
04  /  Locate to marker

Rehearsal letters, instantly

Every marker in the cue, one tap away. Jump & Pause to set a section up, or Jump & Play to roll straight into it.

III  ·  The score itself
CueConductor part picker open over a score page, listing every instrument part in the cue
05 · Part picker
Full C score in CueConductor with the conductor overlay — counter, beat dots, and gold and green streamers flying over the page
06 · Score view
A Violin 1 part in CueConductor with the page-turn panel showing Turn Early set to two beats
07 · Part view

Conduct from the page. Every stand, its own part.

Attach a PDF score — and every instrument part — then turn the iPad upright. The music replaces the video, with the counter, beat dots, and streamers flying over it. Pages turn themselves from the cue's own tempo map, a configurable number of beats early so your eyes are never on a dead page.

Drop the whole stack of part PDFs into CueBuilder™ and they sort into concert order, name themselves, and read their own measure numbers to build the page maps. On the stand, a player picks their part once and every cue follows — annotations kept per part, per device. Mark up the page with Apple Pencil, or turn pages with a Bluetooth pedal.

IV  ·  The whole room
CueConductor sync settings with Conduct (Broadcast) switched on and searching for stands on the network
08  /  Send & receive sync

One podium. Every stand.

Switch on Conduct and every CueConductor on the Wi-Fi follows the podium — counter, beat dots, streamers, and page turns, each player reading their own part. No cables, no MIDI, no audio to distribute, no click box per chair.

The same screen also receives: point it at a DAW and the podium follows the session instead. Lead or follow, from one panel.

V  ·  From your session
CueConductor Link AU3 plug-in window in Logic, streaming the session to a named iPad
09  /  Logic, Cubase, DP

Insert one plug-in

Drop CueConductor Link on your session's main output — AU, VST3, or AAX — and the session streams to the conductor's screen. Sample-accurate, no MIDI setup, no timecode routing. Pick which devices receive it right in the plug-in.

CueConductor Link AAX plug-in window in Pro Tools
10  /  Pro Tools

Straight from the session

Shared memory on the Mac; Wi-Fi or a plain USB cable to iPad and iPhone — several devices at once. It tracks even while the transport is parked, and counts the conductor in through the session's own pre-roll.

CueConductor external video output showing the scoring video on a second display
11  /  External video

The picture, for the room

Send frame-accurate scoring video to a second display or a projector — the audience sees the film, you keep the overlay. House latency is dialed in from the same screen, so picture and pit stay together.

VI  ·  Make your own
CueBuilder in CueConductor — MIDI, stems, score PDFs, and scoring video assembled into a package
12  /  CueBuilder™

Your session becomes a package

Drop in your MIDI, stems, score and part PDFs, and scoring video — CueBuilder™ turns them into a performance-ready .conductpkg. Save works in progress as projects, compile when it's ready, and share with every stand that needs it.

TempoMapper building a beat grid against a recorded audio waveform
13  /  TempoMapper™

Music that never met a click

Some cues were played wild. TempoMapper™ builds a beat grid against real audio — a live take, a rubato performance, a cue composed without a click. Record or import, tap the tempo as it plays, nudge the anchors onto the transients, and hand a finished cue straight to CueBuilder™. Rubato and all.

Who It's For

One app. Three roles.

01
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Conductor

The Stage & Scoring Session

Lead hybrid orchestra performances and film scoring sessions with full control over stems, click, MIDI cues, and synchronized video — all from the podium.

  • Visual streamers & punches
  • Jump to rehearsal marker or measure
  • Conduct from the PDF score, pages turning themselves
  • Broadcast the transport to every stand
  • Stem mixer with FOH master
  • Audio-only, scoring video, or score modes
02
🎚️

Composer/Engineer

The Recording Studio

Insert one plug-in on your session's main output and the whole session streams to the conductor's screen — sample-accurate, no MIDI setup. Broadcast a counter to the tracking room, and build custom packages from your own MIDI, stems, score, and video.

  • Sample-accurate DAW sync from a plug-in — no MIDI setup
  • Broadcast musicians' counter
  • In-app package builder
  • One-step QLab package export
  • Conductor-controlled stem mix
03
🎻

Musician

The Practice Studio

Practice with professional-grade rehearsal tracks synced to the same package the conductor uses on stage — and on the stand, read your own part with page turns that follow the podium.

  • Read your own part, page turns following the conductor
  • Jump to any measure number
  • Jump to any rehearsal letter
  • Custom mix control
  • iPhone & iPad
In Practice

See how it works.

How to set up and run CueConductor at the podium — from audio-only click setups to full HDMI scoring video broadcast.

Connecting Audio (USB)

A/V for Rehearsal (HDMI)

Movie in Concert (HDMI)

Studio workflows — syncing with a DAW, broadcasting a counter to the tracking room, and building packages from your own session assets.

Building Packages with CueBuilder™

Syncing iPad to DAW for Conductor

Broadcasting Musicians' Counter to Scoring Stage

Practice with the same stems and click tracks used in the live performance or tracking session — so you're never surprised on stage or in the session.

Rehearsal Tracks

Get Music

Three ways in.

01

Browse the catalog

Performance packages from Vision Music Publishing, in folders by series and title, downloaded straight to the device. Sent a link to a title? Tapping it opens that cue right in CueConductor.

02

Build your own

CueBuilder™ turns your MIDI, stems, score and part PDFs, and scoring video into a .conductpkg — and TempoMapper™ taps a grid for cues that never met a click. Both are built in.

03

Commission one

Send your score and let it come back finished — stems, click, cue map, parts, and video, assembled and tested.

TempoMapper™ maps it  →  CueBuilder™ builds it  →  CueConductor conducts it

TempoMapper™ is included with CueConductor Pro — and also sold on its own.

Explore TempoMapper™
Additional Support

Your repertoire. Your performance. Your session.

Need a custom package built from your own score? Contact Nathan Hofheins for commissioning assistance — or book a consultation to walk through the package builder together.

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